bken1234 said: In MtGPQ; skill trumps collection 100% of the time. Some of the biggest spenders are horrible deck builders and players, and I’ve seen many F2P players do amazing things with almost nothing.
jimpark said: I would just like to inquire about your thoughts of exclusive cards. There are two different kinds of exclusive cards - paid set exclusives (Momir Vig, etc) and free event completion exclusives (Experiment Kraj, etc). Under the "Early exclusive content and extra one-time offers," I speculate free event completion exclusive cards (i.e. Experiment Kraj) might be exclusive to the VIP system; is this the case? If this is the case, then there is potential for events like RT to be technically placed behind a VIP pay-wall until an allotted amount of time has passed for those cards to be considered non-exclusive. Based off of the past, these cards have been reverted from exclusive to non-exclusive when a new set drops (approx. 3+ months); is this also the case (asking both certain events being "VIP pay-walled" and the timeframes)?
ArielSira said: @Brigby bad timing and bad communication aside, we had Across Ixalan replaced by Rising Tensions, but will there be another mon-fri event coming in its place?We know it is not being removed, we're complaining about the "5 days a week"-event being removed. Regular orbs, crystals, a pack and pinks all just gone without replacement.
Kinesia said: And for some... Just something to DO every day! If the rewards need to be trimmed, fine, but we have always needed more content not less.
Showerthoughts said: Brigby I have a question concerning the Custom Deck Slots information you put out. Will custom deck slots be going away with the update unless you pay for either a pro or master VIP pass or are those in addition to the slots that are already unlocked? I have unlocked multiple deck slots and would prefer not to have to pay to get them back.
Brigby said: jimpark said: I would just like to inquire about your thoughts of exclusive cards. There are two different kinds of exclusive cards - paid set exclusives (Momir Vig, etc) and free event completion exclusives (Experiment Kraj, etc). Under the "Early exclusive content and extra one-time offers," I speculate free event completion exclusive cards (i.e. Experiment Kraj) might be exclusive to the VIP system; is this the case? If this is the case, then there is potential for events like RT to be technically placed behind a VIP pay-wall until an allotted amount of time has passed for those cards to be considered non-exclusive. Based off of the past, these cards have been reverted from exclusive to non-exclusive when a new set drops (approx. 3+ months); is this also the case (asking both certain events being "VIP pay-walled" and the timeframes)? We do not have any intention of restricting access to events that have event-specific card rewards (for example, Rising Tensions) to only VIP members.Speaking of Rising Tensions though, I also want to clarify that Rising Tensions is not being removed. It is merely being scheduled at a less frequent rate than every single week. It's anticipated to be scheduled again for the beginning of June.The scheduling change for the event was conceived and implemented completely independently of anything surrounding the upcoming VIP Membership options.
Brigby said: We do not have any intention of restricting access to events that have event-specific card rewards (for example, Rising Tensions) to only VIP members.Speaking of Rising Tensions though, I also want to clarify that Rising Tensions is not being removed. It is merely being scheduled at a less frequent rate than every single week. It's anticipated to be scheduled again for the beginning of June.The scheduling change for the event was conceived and implemented completely independently of anything surrounding the upcoming VIP Membership options.
We do not have any intention of restricting access to events that have event-specific card rewards (for example, Rising Tensions) to only VIP members.
Kinesia said: Netdeckers might have problems without cards, but they are the TARGET audience for paying and they subsidize games like this.
Kinesia said: we'd need two subscriptions
stikxs said: Was "we removed RT so it wasn't running every week" driven by players complaining about it coming up every week? Or was it driven by "we need to stop injecting X amount of currency into the system every week"? One of those makes sense, the other makes "unrelated VIP" more appealing.Or it could just be "we don't want players logging in"...
jtwood said: stikxs said: Was "we removed RT so it wasn't running every week" driven by players complaining about it coming up every week? Or was it driven by "we need to stop injecting X amount of currency into the system every week"? One of those makes sense, the other makes "unrelated VIP" more appealing.Or it could just be "we don't want players logging in"... They have previously "retired" events. This isn't the first time and may not be the last.